Palestinian Territories – AFP A Gaza hospital said Sunday that an Israeli air strike targeting a house at a refugee camp in the centre of the Palestinian territory killed at least 20 people. “We received 20 fatalities and several wounded after an Israeli air strike targeted a house belonging to the Hassan family in Al-Nuseirat [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Belgium’s University of Ghent has announced that it is severing ties with three Israeli educational and research institutions, citing misalignment with its human rights policy, according to the rectorate. “We currently assess these three partners as problematic according to the Ghent University human rights test, in contr...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Knesset member and former Mossad deputy chief Ram Ben-Barak has said that the ongoing war in Gaza is “futile,” asserting that Israel is on the losing end and facing economic collapse. “This war lacks a clear objective, and it’s evident that we’re unequivocally losing it,” Ben-Barak told the Israeli pu...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt has denied reports of retracting its involvement in South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel, lodged at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over genocide allegations in Palestine. The private Al Qahera News channel quoted an unnamed high-ranking source as saying that “the reports circulated by Israeli media abo...
ANKARA (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades on Saturday said that it killed 15 Israeli soldiers in Rafah. In a statement, Al-Qassam Brigades said it targeted “a Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip.” It added that its fighters […]...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Civil Defense Service in Gaza has said that the Israeli army has destroyed over 300 homes in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip since the start of its military offensive a week ago. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that “the Israeli army has completely destroyed more than […]
ANKARA (AA) – The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital has reported that bodies of 28 Palestinians, including children and women, arrived at the hospital following an Israeli bombing near the facility in the northern Gaza Strip. In a press statement, Hossam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, said: “28 Palestinian bodies, i...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Friday evacuated out of Gaza 17 American doctors who had been stuck since an Israeli takeover of the Rafah crossing closed the border with Egypt, official sources said. US diplomats arranged for the 17 doctors to leave instead through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Israel. “Some ...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization has warned that the continued closure of the Rafah crossing and the lack of access to the Kerem Shalom crossing are “increasing the risk of shortages in medical supplies and preventing the rotation of emergency medical teams (EMTs) in Gaza.” “The last medical commodities enter...
Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, a vocal critic of Zionism, was detained and interrogated by FBI agents upon his arrival at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. He was questioned for two hours about his views on Hamas, Israeli actions in Gaza, and his relationships with Arab and Muslim friends in the US. Pappé, who detailed the encounter [&hell...
